All humans are prone collect things. I collect great quotes. There’s something powerful about a great quote that enters a life to sharpen, mold, direct, focus, prod, scold, remind and encourage the human heart. Here, I’ve compiled some personal favorites.
Christianity does not consist in any partial amendment of our lives, any particular moral virtues, but in an entire change of our natural temper, a life wholly devoted to God.
~William Law
Jesus promised His disciples three things: that they would be entirely fearless, absurdly happy, and that they would get into trouble.
~W. Russell Maltby
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.
~Robert Southey
Daughter, in the tears of women lies the strength of men.
~Valerius, in Rosemary McMillen’s The Anointed
You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve, and that is enough to both honor enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth.
~Aslan, in C.S. Lewis’s Prince Caspian
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
~Harper Lee
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Only one life. It will soon be past. Only what’s done for Christ will last.
To be a cult figure in one’s own lifetime is most unpleasant.
~J.R.R. Tolkien
God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshippers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose.
~John Piper
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on earth.
~John Wesley
God will either give you what you ask, or something far better.
~Robert Murray McCheyne
If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
~William Law
In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.
~Dorothy L. Sayers
There’s no half-singing in the shower, you’re either a rock star or an opera diva.
~Josh Groban
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
~Oscar Wilde
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
~Albert Einstein
Jesus has to be and become ever more the center of my life. It is not enough that Jesus is my teacher, my guide, my source of inspiration. It is not even enough that he is my companion on they journey, my friend and my brother. Jesus must become the heart of my heart, the fire of my life, the love of my soul, the bridegroom of my spirit. He must become my only thought, my only concern, my only desire.
~Henri Nouwen
The diligent use of the Word of God is the chief means of reform.
~Philip Jacob Spener
Only one life. It will soon be past. Only what’s done for Christ will last.
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the apprecaition of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
God will either give you what you ask, or something far better.
~Robert Murray McCheyne
This is one of the miracles of love; it gives – to both, but perhaps especially to the woman – a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
~C.S. Lewis
Andrew Hess
